MicSem Library: From Cartons to Containers to the Cloud

Hezel, Francis X. (2025-01-05). MicSem Library: From Cartons to Containers to the Cloud. Micronesian Seminar.

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Abstract: Talk given at the dedication of the MicSem library on Yap, May 1, 2025

"The MicSem library began modestly–with a dozen boxes of books on the Pacific, a few rusty shelves and a battered Olympia typewriter, all sent to Xavier High School, after the last of the scholastics in the US had been ordained and assigned to return to the school to teach.

"That last person would have been myself back in 1969. As I was waited to return to Micronesia after ordination, there was no one left in Maryland to hold the fort, to continue the monthly seminar that Jesuit seminarians held to keep up their interest in Micronesia during their theological studies. The line of scholastics was broken. So I packed the books off to Chuuk in a few cartons and hopped a flight to resume teaching at Xavier High School. There the books were housed with me in one of the smaller faculty rooms at the school....""